Agriculture Degree Program in China - Grassland Science

1. Introduction

Grassland Science is a new cross subject, taking herbivorous animal forage feed production, urban greening and ecological governance as the main body, using modern biological technology to cultivate new species to study grassland with high yield and good quality in the construction and management of technical system, to create the beauty of the people-oriented urban greening landscape pattern, exploring based on grass ecological control method and the way, realize the industrialization of the grass.

2. Training Objectives

The program trains senior scientific and technical personnel equipped with the basic theory, basic knowledge and basic skills of grassland science (lawn, garden green, grass planting, breeding and processing, artificial grassland construction and management, improving grassland, etc.), can be engaged in agriculture and other related departments or units for grass production and protection technology and design, promotion and development, operation and management, teaching and scientific research, etc.

3. Training Requirements

The students mainly study the basic theory and basic knowledge of agricultural crop science, agricultural ecology, environmental science and grass resources protection, sustainable and efficient use, receive the basic training in the grass resource planning, operation and management, artificial grassland, grass products processing, green lawn, animal husbandry and environmental science and so on, with the basic ability of grassland resources protection, development and management, forage production and processing, lawn green.

4. Knowledge and Skills

1) Have solid theoretical knowledge of mathematics, physics and chemistry and so on;

2) Master the basic theories and knowledge of agricultural biology, plant production, animal production and environmental science

3) With the skills in protection and utilization of grassland, forage production and processing, production planning and management of lawn green;

4) With the awareness of sustainable development of agriculture and basic knowledge, understand the scientific frontier and development trend of grassland and the grassland science;

5) Familiar with agriculture, animal husbandry and grass development related policies and regulations;

6) Master the basic methods of scientific literature search and data query, and have the ability of scientific research and practical work.

5. Main Subjects

Grassland science, forage grass science, turf science

6. Major Courses

Botany, plant physiology, plant taxonomy, lawn science, planning and design of green area, grassland resources, grassland ecology and grassland cultivation, grassland protection, a private lawn planting and management, flowers, engineering drawing, grass breeding and seed, forage cultivation and processing, feed quality monitoring, animal nutrition, animal husbandry, etc.

7. Practice

Teaching practice, production practice, curriculum design, graduation thesis (graduation design), research and training, production labor, social practice, etc

8. Program Experiments

Pasture and turf grass cultivation technology experiment, forage and turf grass breeding technology experiment, seed science and seed test experiment, grassland investigation and planning experiments, grassland management experiment, grassland ecological evaluation experiment, lawn planting and curing experimental, pasture pest and weed survey experiment, grass products processing experiment etc.

9. Employment Prospects

After graduation, students may get jobs at urban construction and environmental protection, tourism, grassland animal husbandry and other related departments or enterprises and institutions engaged in lawn and garden city, green construction and grass seeds production, grass products processing and trade, artificial grassland planting and management, degradation of grassland ecosystem restoration and reconstruction, planting grass and raising livestock and other related technology and design, promotion and development, operation and management, teaching and scientific research, etc.

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